UTLC LC-2023-262 - [2023] UKUT 287 (LC)

UTLC Case Number: LC-2023-262

ON APPEAL FROM THE FIRST-TIER TRIBUNAL (PROPERTY CHAMBER)

FTT Ref: LON/00BB/HBA/2022/0001

Royal Courts of Justice

Decision Date: 6 December 2023

TRIBUNALS, COURTS AND ENFORCEMENT ACT 2007

HOUSING – BANNING ORDER – banning order offences - spent convictions – construction of sections 15 and 16 of the Housing and Planning Act 2016 – section 7(3) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 – discretion – whether justice can be done without admitting evidence of spent convictions

BETWEEN:

JAHANGIR HUSSAIN

Appellant

-and-

LONDON BOROUGH OF NEWHAM

Respondent

Re: 76 Cranmer Road,

Forest Gate,

London, E7 OJL

Upper Tribunal Judge Elizabeth Cooke

Royal Courts of Justice

28 November 2023

Ms Leanne Buckley-Thomson for the appellant, instructed by Addison & Khan Solicitors

Mr Andrew Lane for the respondent, instructed by OneSource Legal Services

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